Results 8,861-8,880 of 11,441 for speaker:Ivana Bacik
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I wonder is this directly relevant to the amendments.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I am just asking.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: Gate keepers.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: That is not what I said.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I will be brief as I am conscious of the time and also that others have been making Second Stage speeches, as Senator Aideen Hayden said. This is not the time to do so. On the specific points raised, I am grateful to Senator Averil Power for referring to the sunset clause. I will reconsider the most recent evidence on whether it would be wise to include a sunset clause if there is a fear...
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I conducted research in 2003 and we published the first study in Ireland of gender discrimination in the legal profession. We found that while well over two thirds of all law students nationally were women who have been in the majority since the mid-1980s, they were a tiny minority at the top levels of the profession. I suspect the same is true of the medical profession. What this...
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I am delighted to hear that. A key point about the legislation concerns the pipeline fallacy, the idea that it will happen if we let things to continue organically. It will not. That is why we need the legislation.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I have forgotten already.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I certainly do. It's title is Kicking and Screaming: Dragging Ireland into the 21st Century, published by O'Brien Press in 2004.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: Thanks for the plug.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: He did that on Second Stage.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: Some of its members.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: With regard to the last issue raised by Senator Darragh O'Brien, the Tánaiste gave a robust response, as reported in today's newspapers, to the assertion by Michael Link last week. The Tánaiste made it clear that it was not the case and that the fiscal compact was not negotiated in such a way as to avoid the need for a referendum. That is the answer the Senator seeks. He does not need to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: -----to get somebody to say the same thing again which they have already said and which the Minister of State, Deputy Creighton, said in this House before.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I really do not see the purpose of that amendment.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I commend the Minister for Social Protection on her excellent performance last night on "The Frontline". It was a really superb debate about job activation. There was a very good exchange among all the panellists and I thought that many of the issues dealing with the change of culture in the Department of Social Protection and the implementation of job activation measures were going to be...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I hope it will.
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: It is specifically a Christian prayer.
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I would be delighted to say more but I am sure I have used up my time.
- Seanad: Standing Order 18: Motion (23 Feb 2012)
Ivana Bacik: There was no vote.